Editorial: Pursuing suppliers key part of heroin battle

8:03 PM,
Jun. 7, 2014

Heroin seized in a drug arrest is displayed at the Brown County Sheriff's Office.

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Press-Gazette Media Editorial Board

Behind every heroin addict is someone who supplied the drug. It's that "someone" who law enforcement officials and prosecutors are targeting as they crack down on fatal drug cases.

The number of charges of first-degree reckless homicide by drug delivery charges doubled between 2011 and 2013, according to last Sunday's Gannett Wisconsin Media Investigative Team report.

The team's "Deadly Doses" series has been tracking the spike in heroin use and overdose deaths in Wisconsin and first reported last year that heroin overdose deaths in the state more than doubled between 2010 and 2012, ...